Friday, March 22, 2013

Monday, March 18, 2013

Conversation between Scout Finch and Miss Maudie Atkinson in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:

“You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist-”
“That’s what you are, ain’t it?”
"My shell’s not that hard, child. I’m just a Baptist.”
“Don’t you all believe in foot-washing?”
“We do. At home in the bathtub.”

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

In we shuffle, hooded amplitudes,scapulared brooms, a stray earring, skin-headsand flowing locks, blind in one eye, hooked-nosed, handsome as a prince(and knows it), a five-thumbed organist, an acolyte who sings in quarter tones, one slightly swollen keeper of the bees, the carpenter minus a finger here and there, our pre-senile writing deathless verse, a stranded sailor, a Cassian scholar, the artist suffering the visually illiterate and indignities unnamed, two determined liturgists. In a word, eager purity and weary virtue. Last of all, the Lord Abbot, early old(shepherding the saints is like herding cats). These chariots and steeds of Israelmake a black progress into church. A rumble of monks bows low and offers praiseto the High God of Gods who is faithful forever.

Monday, March 04, 2013

"My heart only has entrances. It doesn’t have exits. Whoever enters remains there. Whatever he may do, I love him the same as I loved him when he first entered into my heart. I pray for him and seek his salvation."